September 30, 2012

"Human Body: An Interactive Guide to the Inner Workings of the Body" by Steve Parker (Barron's 2008) has fantastic photos, illustrations, pull-tabs, pop-ups and other interactive features (engineered by Alan Brown and Zerina White). There's a lot to discover here for kids of all ages. I liked opening the skull with the brain inside!

September 4, 2012

I have some wonderful news to share with you all! One of my watercolor paintings has been accepted into the Miami Watercolor Society's Online Exhibition! I'm so thrilled to be able to show my work along side other amazing painters. Check out the online exhibition here and check out my painting below!

August 30, 2012

Tien-Min Liao, a graphic designer from Taipei, Taiwan, discovered a lovely alphabet hidden in plain sight Grand Central Station in New York City. You can see the full alphabet book and Tien-Min's other projects here. Her work has been featured on Colossal, Adweek, and other websites.

August 28, 2012

One of the reasons I decided to become an engineer was because I
realized that engineering and art are not exactly opposites, as the
course load for each would suggest, but rather one can greatly influence
the other. One artist that I found that walks the line between the two
is Theo Jansen with his Strandbeests. The Strandbeests are mechanical
animals that live on the beach and are self-propelled by the wind. Theo
Jansen is able to take the engineering principals that would make a
machine like this move, and apply his artistic vision to make it move
and look like a real animal. Since discovering Theo Jansen, pop-ups
have only reinforced this notion of combining paper-engineering with art
to create a movable masterpiece! You can find out more about Theo
Jansen and his work at http://www.strandbeest.com/

August 27, 2012

Gemma Correll is an illustrator from the United Kingdom. Her style is simple, quirky, and quite comical in my opinion. I love her line work and the one to two spots of color she uses. Check out more of her work on her website and her blog!

August 20, 2012

Three reasons this summer is awesome: I got to work in the studio and
learn how to make pop-ups, the Olympics were amazing, and the Movable Book Society
is about to have its 9th biennial conference in Salt Lake City!!

The
Movable Book Society was founded in 1993 as a way for collectors,
artists, curators, booksellers, book producers, and anybody who loves
pop-up and movable books to get together and share their enthusiasm for
the art. This year’s conference should not disappoint with
presentations from Chuck Fischer, Andrew Baron, Robert Sabuda, and a whole lot more! There will also be workshops and demonstrations
where visitors have the opportunity to get their hands dirty and make
some of their own pop-ups as well as a tour of local book studios and a
pop-up exhibit from the collection of Ann Montanaro Staples.

So
if you want to meet a bunch of awesome people who love pop-ups as much
as you, you can find all of the information you need and a registration
form at the Movable Book Society conference website, but act fast because early registration for the conference ends on Wednesday, August 22nd!